The South Australian strain is the dominant strain that’s been circulating around the globe since February. A lot of what was said in Adelaide yesterday by the government there is bordering on spin. Having implied initially that they had the outbreak under...
The legal statement does appear to skirt around the fact that the young woman went for a Covid test presenting with symptoms, and as such, would as a matter of routine, have been told to self isolate until the test results were returned (as I was when I ...
Polls underestimated the scale of Labor’s victory in Qld too. Palaszczuk held the Townsville seats that were considered vulnerable and made good gains into LNP territory across SEQ. Queensland Greens did very well in urban liberal seats in Brisbane where ...
Possibly. But the important thing here is that Ardern isn’t reliant on any other party to hold confidence of the House. Key still needed other parties to do that so his intention was to bind them all close.
Polls close in Queensland in about 40 minutes after a typically brutal Aussie election campaign.
Only happening though observer because Ardern has an unlikely majority whatever happens. In the normal scheme of things this little tweak of MMP coalition/C &S government wouldn’t be possible.
Greens have voted to join the government. The deal is done.
Well put Anker. And why anybody thinks Labour would/should offer the Greens anything more than they really need to beats me. I think the Greens have done alright as it happens, I was sort of expecting just the one ministry for Shaw. As for the idea that ...
@swordfish 20 Do you think the disparity between advanced party votes and Election Day party votes is due to the demographic differences? Older more conservative voters with longstanding election habits voting on polling day while other voters were happy ...
Another landslide election victory for the left. British Columbia NDP premier John Hogan has won big after calling a snap election. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-election-results-2020-1.5776058
He’s done a great job in Corrections. Reducing the prison muster from the shamefully high levels National had escalated it to. And pivoting the focus away from just punishment back to some sort of rehabilitation. And successfully managing public ...
I think you can safely just ignore him anker. It turns out that almost all the rest of us have.
I know right, I said to a friend yesterday that I was missing the election tradition whereby the vanquished leader buggers off after conceding on election night and doesn’t say anything much until they return to parliament for the Speech from the Throne.
@Muttonbird 3 To be honest I think you’re focusing on the wrong bit of the timeline of events. Presumably the Filipino crew were never meant to complete 14 days quarantine because they were never really entering NZ? They were simply being held somewhere ...
@ logie97 26. I agree. The idea getting shopped around today that National voters just voted tactically to keep the Greens at bay is right wing spin. If that was the case Labour wouldn’t have flipped so many safe National seats. It’s just excuse making and...
Agree Anker. The likelihood of Ardern taking the Deputy PM job off a senior Māori MP, whatever their shortcomings, is pretty much zero. And yes, Greens would be wise to shut it for a bit and let the negotiations play out.
Collins’s delusional sense of self importance was on full display yesterday when she called that presser for 11.30am in order to tell us nothing really. It’s unbelievable no one told her that pretty much the last person the country wanted to hear from, ...
Labour majority govt. C & S with the Greens and they get ministries outside cabinet. But that means some Labour ministers are going to have to step up real fast.
Yeah nearly half a million. Perhaps just a bit more than last time. They’re people who voted outside their electorate, people who enrolled and voted at the same time, and people who voted abroad.
Gerry doing a mea culpa on NatRad right now for his dumbarse Covid conspiracy comments. My morning is just getting better and better.
Got everything I wanted last night. Labour majority. Greens winning AKL Central, which if they work hard could become a real stronghold and they’ll never have to worry about the bloody threshold again. And defying the MMP curse of small parties in ...
Whangarei could flip to Labour on specials. There’s only about 167 votes in it.
@ken 5.2 In the unlikely event Winston does manage to get back in he certainly won’t be needed by Ardern to form government. For all that though, I suspect NZFirst might prefer a term on the crossbenches this time round.
@observer 2 Don't you think the blue meltdown happened as the Covid lockdown hit? There’s pretty nothing left to melt now. 27% to 30% is probably the base of rusted-on Nat voters, like it is with Labour.
NZFirst up 1%. Which is quite a lot when you were only 2% to start with. Late break of Nat voters heading to Winston? Could it happen? 5%? That would be the story of the night on Saturday.
@McFlock 2.1 CB were in the field last weekend til yesterday evening. So presumably they were picking up that crucial little swing from Labour to Greens as voters headed into polls. It’s going to be fine.
Greens on 8% in the last CB. So it’s back to Plan A for me - two ticks Labour on Saturday.
Really shouldn’t post in a hurry while waiting for the bus to work.
If the UMR poll is on the money and National polls 29% or thereabouts on election night, and assuming Hutt South is a Labour gain, then they will have to lose 5 electorate seats for Chris Bishop to be returned as a list MP. Similarly Nicola Willis will ...
8% sub-threshold party votes in that UMR too if you count NZFirst (which is listed, the others aren’t). So that’s about 10 seats Ste-Lague will reallocate to parties that cross the threshold. Labour would get about 65 seats in total. A comfortable majority...
Had a bit of a run in with a woman I know tangentially. I’d said the PM was my local MP and I was looking forward to voting for her. “What’s she ever done?” the woman spat at me. I replied that, right now, she seemed to be pretty much single-handedly ...
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